Buffalo Grove Lime Kiln - Polo, Illinois - National Register of Historic Places
 

Outside from the small Ogle County, Illinois capital of scotland- Polo, if a person pays enough attention, it comes with an immaculate, and restored, 1800s lime kiln. Lime had many uses, including building mortars, lime was used inside the mortars of numerous with the ancient civilizations. Worldwide, relics of the era dot the countryside and merely outside Polo can be a fine instance of an 1870s perpetual lime kiln. Buffalo Grove Foreclosures
 


The lime kiln is just one of five properties owned by the Polo Historical Society. The society undertook a restoration between 1992 and 1993 which cost around $10,000 and mainly replaced loose mortar, the deteriorated wooden portions, and cleared away overgrowth and debris.



Buffalo Grove Lime Kiln is just one of those places you wouldn't know was there unless someone told you regarding it, you're a nearby, or you were very observant. But when you understand it (and so are furnished with directions from your town librarian), it isn't difficult to get. Leave Polo driving west on Dixon Street until you arrive at the T at Galena Trail Road, in places you will see a railroad bridge for your left. The lime kiln is along a mud road that intersects Galena Trail Road right in front of the railroad bridge. There is a small sign marking the kiln's location but it's simple to miss. Buffalo Grove Foreclosures



Once i went it absolutely was late January 2007, there is snow on a lawn, and our small car couldn't make the ascend the incline so we parked on the other side of the railroad bridge, walked around to the dirt road and hoofed it towards the lime kiln.



After hiking across the railroad tracks, between Buffalo Creek to get a quarter to half miles we reached a clearing inside the woods that has been a classic limestone quarry. Sheer cliffs remained from your excavations about 50 yards from in which the lime kiln stood, while watching tracks.



A decade following the historical society undertook the restoration, the lime kiln was included with the nation's Register of Historic Places.